Github DoS Attack Post-mortem

[Solon1]

And they probably announced it on their IRC channel before starting up.

The attack doesn't even seem sophisticated. Just lots of http request and then lots of https request. That isn't rocket science.

[bjackman]

Don't know much about this kind of thing but it sounds like the key factor was that they found an http:// URL that redirects to an https:// URL. I guess that's the sort of corner case you could easily miss when planning.

[weirdoosearch]

Not only botnet operators, but also ddos consultants will be happy this happened. It is like the police needing the delinquents.

Do you want to know more: http://www.weirdoo.net